"Just so that you know I'm a real doctor, I'll always wear a t-shirt in public emblazoned with a smiling doctor emoji. This makes me trustworthy [...] I see no conflict of interest writing for a 'deprecated, unreliable' newspaper with a proven track record for 'poor fact checking & flat-out fabrication"
Prof Katya Rubia, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London: “My own contribution to this programme has been largely misrepresented as my comments were cherry-picked, truncated and presented out of context to make them fit into the programme’s narrative that ADHD does not exist and there is no brain basis to the social construct."
Yet more kickback. New Scientist calls it an "ill-informed documentary"
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2585608-calling-adhd-a-myth-is-pseudoscientific-and-dangerous/
More kickback, and in The Guardian, perhaps to atone for Lucy Mangan's flimsy, muddled review.
"Pemberton displayed a warped non-scientific logic [...] It bore little relation to a genuine scientific debate; in fact, there was no evidence of a debate at all"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/20/there-is-nothing-scientific-about-the-great-adhd-myth-documentary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@Richard_Littler *facepalm*. OMG. 🥶
@Richard_Littler satirical mockery might be the tool of choice here :-)
Some Questions for Channel 4, about their documentary ‘The Great ADHD Myth?’
https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/some-questions-for-channel-4-about?r=24oxwv
@Richard_Littler Without being informed of all the facts of the matter. I feel your rage. I respect your ability to forge it in words. Continue to do so. ( emoji of respect and appreciation ;)
The new "Wakefield study".
@Richard_Littler I've been trying to find the rest of her statement, but I've not been able to. Do you know where it is? I've looked at some of the Science Media Centre article, but couldn't see it there (it is very very long though, so I might have skipped past it?)?
@Richard_Littler @alexisbushnell You feel it was one of those programmes commissioned on the basis of controversy alone. I didn’t watch it - the premise alone infuriated me to the point of rage.
@Richard_Littler You might want to read this as well, if you haven't already.
@Richard_Littler The Guardian has spent the last decade if not more pissing away any sense of goodwill. That four star review is dreadful and really shows off the prejudice of the reviewer.
@Richard_Littler hi handsome how are you doing today
@Richard_Littler The incoherence of anti-neurodiversity reactionaries is wild to me. Somehow ND is both a vast tragedy caused by vaccines, while also being completely made up. Utter disrespect for our perspectives, struggles and contributions.
The UK in particular seems to have succumbed to TERF disease, where anything a privileged writer doesn't understand must be dismissed and sneered at. Apparently Lucy Mangan has form there.